DR. HOLZMAN: In recent years the popularity of bariatric surgery has increased significantly. Many patients are undergoing lap band procedures or gastric bypasses to loose significant amounts of weight. Fortunately for them, they generally have good results and loose a lot of weight. However, unfortunately, their body is left with significant deformities. They have a lot of excess skin around their abdomen, a lot of extra skin around their arms, their breasts are significantly droopy, and their thighs are also quite unacceptable to them. So as a result plastic surgery has followed in the footsteps. And now our techniques, which were generally a provide piecemeal to other patients, are provided to these patients. They get a total body transformation. It really completes how these patients change themselves to a new body. I’m able to do arm work, such as brephoplasties [phonetic], revision of their breast which include breast lifts, breast augmentations, and abdominalplasty.
The abdominalplasty has changed somewhat. We used to do a standard antierdonoplasty [phonetic]. Now many of the patients are having a circumphrensial and all the way around and having lower body lifts or they have outer thigh lifts and a complete revision of their body. Inner thigh lifts are also part of this armaterium [phonetic]. In general post-bariatrics patients are incredibly satisfied and really love the surgery and really do great. And once they tell all their friends those friends come in and see you and it’s incredibly satisfying for them and for me as their plastic surgeon.
